Changelog

( English / Japanese )

v0.10.1

Mar 28, 2026

Fixed

• Fix an issue where undo restored one byte less after deletion (#84)

Changed

• Improve hex view column rendering for better readability across terminals where bold text can appear too prominent: (#82)
  • Change hex view layout to match hexdump -C style
  • Remove bold styling from hex view
• Update selection highlighting (#83) :
  • Use white text on blue background by default
  • Fall back to reverse video when NO_COLOR is set

v0.10.0

Mar 27, 2026

• Add Ctrl-G to cancel current mode (selection / direct edit) and return to view mode (#77)
• Add Tab / Shift+Tab to move the cursor to the start of the next/previous UTF-8 character (#78)
• Added experimental support for macOS and FreeBSD binaries in the distribution package. (#79)

v0.9.0

Mar 21, 2026

Bug fixes

• Fix an issue where the space between the hex column and the character column was one character shorter on the last line (#55)
• Fix data near EOF not shown on initial display (appears after pressing a key) (#60)
• Fix an issue where the screen was not fully updated when the number of visible lines decreased. (#66)

New features

• Add selection and editing features (#56)
  • Selection mode (v)
  • Yank (y) and delete+yank (d)
  • p and P support multi-byte paste
• Add search functionality (#64)
  • Supports searching for byte sequences and strings
  • / and ? search forward/backward
  • n and N repeat the previous search
• Respect NO_COLOR environment variable to disable colored output (per no-color.org) (#73)

Improve

• Allow - as the output file name to write to standard output (refused when standard output is a terminal) (#57)
• Use standard error for screen output when standard output is redirected (#57)
• Make a move the cursor to the inserted byte (#62)
• Allow interrupting save operation with Ctrl-C (#71)
• Improve color scheme to work well on both dark and light backgrounds (#72)

v0.8.0

Mar 13, 2026

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where the version string was empty when built without GNU Make.
  The version string is now updated via make bump during the release process. (#33)
• Fixed an issue where the progress animation was cleared at the wrong position during long save operations. (go-inline-animation#6, go-inline-animation#7, #36)
• Preserve original file permissions when overwriting files (#37,#42)

New Features

• Add direct edit mode that allows directly overwriting hexadecimal values under the cursor. Toggle with Shift+R (switches from the traditional command mode). (#43)
• Indicate READONLY files explicitly when prompting for overwrite confirmation (#37)
• Changed file saving to use a temporary file until writing completes, eliminating any window where the original file could be left in a partial state. (#35)
• Add Shift+I (insert 0x00 to the left of the cursor) and Shift+A (insert 0x00 to the right of the cursor). (#50)
• After UNDO, move the cursor to the address of the reverted change. (#51)

Documents

• Rename release note files to CHANGELOG.md and CHANGELOG_ja.md. (#34)

v0.7.1

Feb 14, 2026

• Improved build portability by replacing local helper tools with 'go run' (make release, make manifest). (#28)
• Move from https://github.com/hymkor/binview to https://github.com/hymkor/bine (#31)

v0.7.0

Feb 6, 2026

• Changed G (Shift-G) to move to the end of the currently loaded data instead of waiting for all data to be read. (#11)
• Prevent key input responsiveness from being blocked even when data reading stalls. (#13)
• Renamed the executable from binview to bine, and updated the product name to Bine. (#14)
  • (Planned) When the stable version of bine is released:
    • Rename the repository from binview to bine
    • Update go.mod, go.sum, import paths, README URLs, and the Scoop manifest accordingly
• Echo the y input to the screen during overwrite confirmation. (#17)
• Display a text animation while waiting for a save operation to complete. (#17)
• When executing the q command, prompt whether to save the changes (#18)
• Changed the Esc key from application exit to a prefix-only key to prevent unintended behavior caused by split input sequences. (#21)
• Readline: Treat Ctrl+G and Meta+Ctrl+G as cancel input instead of Esc (#24)
• Remove the default save file name (output.new) when reading from standard input. (#26)

v0.6.3

Jan 2, 2022

• (#3) Do not display U+0080-U+009F, the Unicode Characters in the 'Other, Control' Category

v0.6.2

Nov 30, 2021

• Fix: on Linux, w: output was zero bytes.

v0.6.1

Nov 28, 2021

• Fix: on ANSI encoding, the byte-length of ANK was counted as 2-bytes

v0.6.0

Nov 26, 2021

• i/a: "string" or U+nnnn: insert with the current encoding
• Detect the encoding if data starts with U+FEFF
• u : implement the undo

v0.5.0

Nov 13, 2021

• ALT-L: Change the character encoding to UTF16LE
• ALT-B: Change the character encoding to UTF16BE
• Show some unicode's name(ByteOrderMark,ZeroWidthjoin) on the status line
• i: insert multi bytes data (for example: 0xFF,U+0000,"utf8string")
• a: append multi bytes data (for example: 0xFF,U+0000,"utf8string")
• Support history on getline

v0.4.1

Oct 15, 2021

• Fix: $ does not move the cursor when the current line is less then 16 bytes

v0.4.0

Oct 9, 2021

• Update status-line even if no keys are typed
• ALT-A: Change the character encoding to the current codepage (Windows-Only)
• ALT-U: Change the character encoding to UTF8 (default)

v0.3.0

Sep 23, 2021

• Fix the problem that the utf8-rune on the line boundary could not be drawn
• w: restore the last saved filename as the next saving
• w: show canceled instead of ^C when ESCAPE key is pressed
• Display CR, LF, TAB with half width arrows
• Read data while waiting key typed
• Improve the internal data structure and be able to read more huge data
• Fix: the text color remained yellow even after the program ended

v0.2.1

Jul 5, 2021

• (#1) Fix the overflow that pointer to seek the top of the rune is decreased less than zero (Thx @spiegel-im-spiegel)
• If the cursor is not on utf8 sequences, print (not utf8)
• If the parameter is a directory, show error and quit immediately instead of hanging

v0.2.0

Jul 5, 2021

• Status line:
  • current rune's codepoint
  • changed/unchanged mark
• Implement key feature
  • p (paste 1 byte the rightside of the cursor)
  • P (paste 1 byte the leftside of the cursor)
  • a (append '\0' at the rightside of the cursor)
• Update library go-readline-ny to v0.4.13

v0.1.1

Dec 28, 2020

• Did go mod init to fix the problem not able to build because the incompatibility of go-readline-ny between v0.2.6 and v0.2.8
• The binary executable of v0.1.0 has no problems.

v0.1.0

Nov 8, 2020

• The first version